To report back on Mac performance... Well, 1.02B fucked it up!!! They said it would improve Mac performance but it many cases its way worse. I thought it was a latency issue, but after testing and reading online I found out otherwise. My fps are usually really solid, but out of the blue, when nothing is even intense, they drop to 10, then way back up. Rinse and repeat.

Well, blizzard has recreated it already and is testing it from what I've read on the forums. So that's good. Being horribly addicted to an awesome game, then out of the blue it being unplayable=not fun!

What type of items (stat wise) should I be holding onto to sell on the RMAH? It's hard for me to tell from just doing searches on the auction house as you can't see completed auctions.

+Vitality and at least one other primary attribute+Resist gear (in particular +All Resist)+Damage rings / amulets (although it's currently impossible to search for these properly, so their AH'ing value is minimal until that bug is fixed)+Attack speed (which is basically +damage, of course) weapons, gloves, rings and amulets (I don't think it shows up on anything else)+Crit Chance / Crit Damage+Life on Hit (or other healing bonuses, but my sense is that +Life on Hit is currently more prized than the others)+Sockets are always good, too -- especially on helms (for the +% life gem) or weapons (for the +damage ruby or +crit damage emerald)+Reduced Level Requirement (primarily on L60 items, as this lets people below 60 use end-game quality gear, which gives you a much larger market to sell to)

Of course, just one of those things generally isn't enough to make an item AH-worthy, I find...but if it has two or three (or more) than it's worth considering. You also have to pay attention to the magnitude of the bonuses versus the item level: if the attribute bonuses are only +25 or something on a L50 item, it's trash regardless of whatever else it might have.

All of that said, I'm far from an expert at the game or the AH, so others may have better suggestions...

EDIT> Oh, and I forgot +Magic Find and +Gold Find, which are obviously popular things to have, although I've never searched for them on the AH myself, so I have no idea how much they're selling for.

What type of items (stat wise) should I be holding onto to sell on the RMAH? It's hard for me to tell from just doing searches on the auction house as you can't see completed auctions.

+Vitality and at least one other primary attribute+Resist gear (in particular +All Resist)+Damage rings / amulets (although it's currently impossible to search for these properly, so their AH'ing value is minimal until that bug is fixed)+Attack speed (which is basically +damage, of course) weapons, gloves, rings and amulets (I don't think it shows up on anything else)+Crit Chance / Crit Damage+Life on Hit (or other healing bonuses, but my sense is that +Life on Hit is currently more prized than the others)+Sockets are always good, too -- especially on helms (for the +% life gem) or weapons (for the +damage ruby or +crit damage emerald)+Reduced Level Requirement (primarily on L60 items, as this lets people below 60 use end-game quality gear, which gives you a much larger market to sell to)

Of course, just one of those things generally isn't enough to make an item AH-worthy, I find...but if it has two or three (or more) than it's worth considering. You also have to pay attention to the magnitude of the bonuses versus the item level: if the attribute bonuses are only +25 or something on a L50 item, it's trash regardless of whatever else it might have.

All of that said, I'm far from an expert at the game or the AH, so others may have better suggestions...

EDIT> Oh, and I forgot +Magic Find and +Gold Find, which are obviously popular things to have, although I've never searched from them on the AH myself, so I have no idea how much they're selling for.

according to all the people posting on the official forums, including at least one blue, you HAVE to choose paypal when creating the auction. Once funds are in the battlenet account, there they stay.

Notice the line you quoted doesn't actually counter this, it is just worded less than clearly. You lose 15% when you choose for the money to go to paypal.

Right, you pay 15% to get real money to PayPal, but you can do it.

I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing or not. Your statements keep making me think you think you can convert battlenet funds to cash through paypal and you can't. Not without 'laundering' the money through another auction which means you lose more listing fees. You HAVE to choose paypal as the means of getting money up front, not battlenet funds.

Can I convert my Battle.net Balance into cash?Any amount you add to your Battle.net Balance, either through an approved payment method or by adding Diablo III auction house earnings to your Battle.net Balance, will not be refundable (except as otherwise provided by law), and you are not able to convert that Balance into cash. Battle.net Balance can only be used to buy designated Blizzard Entertainment products and services or to acquire items from Diablo III's currency-based auction house. In certain regions, Diablo III players may choose to receive cash, rather than add to their Battle.net Balance, from the sale of an item from the currency-based auction house. Those players will be able to do so via PayPal for an additional fee. Players will need to determine which method they wish to use at the time they post their auction. For more information on the currency-based auction house, see the Auction House FAQ

according to all the people posting on the official forums, including at least one blue, you HAVE to choose paypal when creating the auction. Once funds are in the battlenet account, there they stay.

Notice the line you quoted doesn't actually counter this, it is just worded less than clearly. You lose 15% when you choose for the money to go to paypal.

Right, you pay 15% to get real money to PayPal, but you can do it.

I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing or not. Your statements keep making me think you think you can convert battlenet funds to cash through paypal and you can't. Not without 'laundering' the money through another auction which means you lose more listing fees. You HAVE to choose paypal as the means of getting money up front, not battlenet funds.

Can I convert my Battle.net Balance into cash?Any amount you add to your Battle.net Balance, either through an approved payment method or by adding Diablo III auction house earnings to your Battle.net Balance, will not be refundable (except as otherwise provided by law), and you are not able to convert that Balance into cash. Battle.net Balance can only be used to buy designated Blizzard Entertainment products and services or to acquire items from Diablo III's currency-based auction house. In certain regions, Diablo III players may choose to receive cash, rather than add to their Battle.net Balance, from the sale of an item from the currency-based auction house. Those players will be able to do so via PayPal for an additional fee. Players will need to determine which method they wish to use at the time they post their auction. For more information on the currency-based auction house, see the Auction House FAQ

cool, just trying to make sure nobody gets screwed out of money. I have a feeling a fair number of people will by thinking you can transfer out of battlenet funds later.

I was under the assumption that I could to paypall and it would cost me 15%. So that's not the case in the US?

you can only get the money into paypal, if you choose paypal when you setup the auction. You can not auction into your battlenet funds and then transfer to paypal. battlenet funds is the default when you create an auction, so a lot of people are choosing it.

It's not clear if you just go to the auction house, but there are certain requirements to send money to paypal. Obviously you need a paypal account. You also need to have all the security features activated on your account. So you will need the authenticator/mobile authenticator and SMS alerts configured on the battlenet website (under 'account' -> security options). Then you need to add your paypal account as a method of payment on the battlenet website (under account -> settings -> payment options). After all that is configured and confirmed, you may set up an auction that pays out to paypal. The first time each session that you set up a paypal auction you will need to enter the SMS code. So in summary you need:

Battle.net account with Diablo III activated

Authenticator/Mobile Authenticator Activated

SMS Alerts Activated

Paypal Account added

Select Paypal at the time of auction creation

Enter SMS authorization code

Simple, right? Actually, it's not that hard. I just wished someone had spelled it out for me, so I spelled it out in case someone else needs it.

I wouldn't call it useless, so much as that much harder to stack, and you may more often find that a non-ias item has better stats that the 5% just doesnt make up for where 13% felt harder to pass on. If people perceive it as useless, though, prices on IAS gear might drop.

Personally, what I think they should have done before they did this was make IAS additive to weapon speed rather than multiplicative (I.e. have 10% add .1 to weapon speed rather than .1*wpn speed). That might have tempered the issue without having to cut the values so dramatically.

going from 15% to 4% is a wasted stat. that's nothing basically. so stupid when they could've just put a DR on it.

blizzard's balancing team needs to take a closer look at the SC2 team. WoW is balanced like shit and now Diablo 3 is suffering the same fate. Honestly, who fucking cares that people stacked IAS? how could they not see that casters would do that in the first place? I mean, this isn't a competitive game. i just wanna shoot mobs and get loot, that's all. PvP will be a joke anyways having actually played it.

if true IAS is now useless. I'm already finding pieces to replace them on the cheap just in case.

I hope! Fix my d3 blizzard, it worked fine and you tinkered with it too much. I can't sleep without diablo!

I'm pretty sure you can't sleep because of D3. In any case, I only want to be survivable with my DH and Barb without suffering a huge drop in DPS. If the IAS drops kill the DH's DPS too much I'll probably start up another character for a while until they tweak things back a bit.

Sucks for those who dropped money on the RMAH for high ias weapons and gear, heh.

You know, I never thought about this. Blizzard certainly needs to be careful with how they change things in the game as people are spending real money to buy items and if they suddenly change something that makes an item not worth as much, there is no recourse for the consumer. I'm guessing they've attempted to protect themselves from being sued for something like this in the EULA, but that won't stop someone from bringing up a lawsuit to attempt to challenge it.

You're absolutely right about that and that's one of the reasons I would not spend a dime on the RMAH. Blizzard has said the changes to ias will be retroactive so its not like they are letting you have the items as they were bought or found. I think that part might be a mistake... It effects the balance to not retro change those attributes but you risk seriously pissing off a customer who spent real dollars to acquire the item.

While I don't like the idea of a RMAH anyway, blizzard created the demon and needs to play fair by it.

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You're absolutely right about that and that's one of the reasons I would not spend a dime on the RMAH. Blizzard has said the changes to ias will be retroactive so its not like they are letting you have the items as they were bought or found. I think that part might be a mistake... It effects the balance to not retro change those attributes but you risk seriously pissing off a customer who spent real dollars to acquire the item.

While I don't like the idea of a RMAH anyway, blizzard created the demon and needs to play fair by it.

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Thing is though, Blizzard has talked about the 1.03 changes & Legendary changes well before the RMAH launched. Don't see how anyone can be pissed about it not being retroactive , besides the regular internet forum whining.